If anyone is looking for a free/local alternative Continue + Ollama is acceptable. If you're just doing run of the mill programming it will work well out of the box.
I'm glad it's open source so I was able to fix most of the issues I had with it and now my copy is in a great place. The documentation is in places many versions behind the actual code so it can be tough to figure out how to set things up when you're venturing off the beaten path. That all being said the granularity of control you have when using local models leads to an experience that's far better than Cursor/Copilot, I really enjoy that it reads my mind a lot of the time now (because I have prompt engineered it to know how I think).
I'm glad it's open source so I was able to fix most of the issues I had with it and now my copy is in a great place. The documentation is in places many versions behind the actual code so it can be tough to figure out how to set things up when you're venturing off the beaten path. That all being said the granularity of control you have when using local models leads to an experience that's far better than Cursor/Copilot, I really enjoy that it reads my mind a lot of the time now (because I have prompt engineered it to know how I think).
Ultimately, isn't this just the way of things? https://thot-experiment.github.io/forever-problems/?set%20up...